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Very unique pledge. lisa sylvester has been looking into the story for us. tell the viewers what is going on, lisa? >> well, wolf, something to keep in mind, this is not a legal contract, but a public declaration, and as they put it, a moral agreement or commitment to leave at least half of the net worth to charity either when they are alive or upon their death. >> well, keep moving. >> reporter: they are all billionaires and many of them household names. buffett, gates, rockefeller, bloomberg a...

The free market. but these guys, you know, when rockefeller senior died, junior was told you must give this wealth away, because its compounding at such a rate that your family will be crushed by the amount of wealth that you have. they had wealth of nations in their family. when you have that much wealth. its easy to become really nasty. now i dont know how to solve that, i dont know how to do it other than the capitalist system. but when you amass rockefeller -- i mean is there anybody that ha...

The free market. but these guys, you know, when rockefeller senior died, junior was told you must give this wealth away, because its compounding at such a rate that your family will be crushed by the amount of wealth that you have. they had wealth of nations in their family. when you have that much wealth. its easy to become really nasty. now i dont know how to solve that, i dont know how to do it other than the capitalist system. but when you amass rockefeller -- i mean is there anybody that ha...

The free market. but these guys, you know, when rockefeller senior died, junior was told you must give this wealth away, because its compounding at such a rate that your family will be crushed by the amount of wealth that you have. they had wealth of nations in their family. when you have that much wealth. its easy to become really nasty. now i dont know how to solve that, i dont know how to do it other than the capitalist system. but when you amass rockefeller -- i mean is there anybody that ha...

When rockefeller senior died, junior was told you must give this wealth away, because its compounding at such a rate that your family will be crushed by the amount of wealth that you have. they had wealth of nations in their family. when you have that much wealth. its easy to become really nasty. now i dont know how to solve that, i dont know how to do it other than the capitalist system. but when you amass rockefeller -- i mean is there anybody that has to kine of money now? >> rockefeller had ...

The free market. but these guys, you know, when rockefeller senior died, junior was told you must give this wealth away, because its compounding at such a rate that your family will be crushed by the amount of wealth that you have. they had wealth of nations in their family. when you have that much wealth. its easy to become really nasty. now i dont know how to solve that, i dont know how to do it other than the capitalist system. but when you amass rockefeller -- i mean is there anybody that ha...

But the effect was improve the environment. >> glenn: thats one people that people dont truly understand. they say i want to get off oil. everything, everything in our society is oil-based. this chair has petroleum buckets. the book has petroleum products, the curtain, the light. everything, our clothing is petroleum-based. >> much of those, that discovery was john d. rockefeller. he believed god wouldnt make something that was useless; so therefore, everything in the barrel of oil had to be use...

And he said to me, you be in las vegas tomorrow. bring $1 million. ill be at the international hotel. bring me the million dollars and well do a deal. you can have my boy and you can take him on a tour. and i said, okay. no problem. now, i didnt have a million dollars. and when i was that age, i was a kid. i was a baby. i thought that rockefeller had a million dollars. vanderbilt had a million dollars. i didnt know what a million dollars was. but i said okay. ill meet you there tomorrow. >> larr...

Vegas tomorrow. bring $1 million. ill be at the international hotel. bring me the million dollars and well do a deal. you can have my boy and you can take him on a tour. and i said, okay. no problem. now, i didnt have a million dollars. and when i was that age, i was a kid. i was a baby. i thought that rockefeller had a million dollars. vanderbilt had a million dollars. i didnt know what a million dollars was. but i said okay. ill meet you there tomorrow. >> larry: what did you do? >> well, ther...

Senators, thank you, senator rockefeller and thank you, vicky kennedy. id also like to thank all of the people here who at the time of his passing or ever worked for robert byrd who helped him to succeed for the people of west virginia. i thank them. and i want to thank the martin luther king male chorus. they gave us a needed break from all these politicians talking up here. i want to say first that i come here to speak for two members of my family. hillary wanted to be here today and she paid ...